Hat of the Bear Spirit

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A fur hat once owned by Ukta, a powerful ogre shaman. It houses the spirit of an especially mighty bear.

the +2 hat of the Bear Spirit

+2 hat

Spirit shield ego
+80 Will (##)
Bearserks on 20% of melee attacks:
User recieves 2x (instead of 1.5x) HP on berserk.
The slowing received after a berserk is reduced.

Desirability

The hat of the Bear Spirit is a dangerous item for melee characters, if only due to the *Rage. However, it does provide some useful buffs. So as long as you can handle the berserk by pre-emptively controlling fights, and don't always use it, this hat can prove to be somewhat useful.

For non-melee characters, *Rage can be safely ignored, since Ranged Weapons, spells, and other non-melee actions don't activate the berserk. Thus, it becomes an overall great hat. Any MP-related negatives from spirit shield are compensated with a great willpower boost.

Tips & Tricks

• Casters can inscribe their held item with !a, so that you don't accidentally trigger Bearserk.
• If you try to melee attack with a ranged weapon, you'll fire a projectile instead, which never triggers Bearserk.

History

• In 0.29, the hat now causes you to go bearserk.
• Prior to 0.28, the hat of the Bear Spririt had evocable berserk (instead of *Rage), rN+, but no buffs to the berserk status.
• In 0.14 the MR provided was increased from 50 to 80.